Joerg Schilling wrote: > Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at sun.com> wrote: > >> Ienup Sung wrote: >>> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI >>> This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems >>> 1. Introduction >>> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: >>> EOF of @euro locales >>> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: >>> Author: Jan Hnatek >>> 1.3 Date of This Document: >>> 04 June, 2009 >>> 4. Technical Description >>> >>> OVERVIEW >>> >>> Solaris contains @euro locale variants for 24 locales and they were >>> created for the transition period before the corresponding EU countries >>> changed their official currency to euro. >>> >>> All countries, with one exception of Czech Republic, now use euro as their >>> official currency. Currently, the contents of the locales for these 23 >>> countries are identical to their @euro variants. >> That isn't correct, the UK is not a Euro currency country and in fact >> the @euro variant is likely needed in the UK more than other countries >> because some people trade in both Sterling and Euro. > > Let me be more correct: > > - There are 28 countries in the EU > > - There are 19 different sets of Euro coins (2 sets for Italy > as Italy and Vatikan don't share the same coins). > > Well known Euro ignorants are:
No need to get offensive, lets keep the real world political opinions out of this case (even if it is MEP election day (at least it is in the UK) today) and stick to the facts of wither or not the @euro variants of the locales still have a use or not. -- Darren J Moffat
